Category Archives: Eldering
An Elder’s day?
What are the important things to have in an Elder’s day? :- Doug.
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Hard work of waiting it out
What I am discovering is that it is meeting I must invite. Easily. No pushing. But doing the hard work of waiting it out of people. Waiting out his and her being. Continually inviting, but not necessarily with words: with … Continue reading
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Name this grandchild
How might you name this grandchild? Bright eyes, Beloved, Curious, Firefly, Grasshopper, Wonderful, Mighty: what do you see in whom you see? Can your sight draw her out? Help her see her humanity, animality. divinity? :- Doug.
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Meet this Thou
The task of the elder is to meet this Thou: here being and doing are one. :- Doug.
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Developing toward what?
If we see we elders are developing—or can be—toward what are we developing? Can we choose? Can we invent? :- Doug.
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Just this shelf
How are you taking responsibility for the world? We cannot clean the whole house in a moment. We must start somewhere: just this shelf, just this window. :- Doug.
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With the generations
What is the conversation you want to have with the generations, both past and future? How have you contributed to where we are today—by either adding to it, or withholding yourself? :- Doug.
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Sees patterns
An elder can see patterns a middler misses. :- Doug.
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You laugh
As an elder, your being is doing, your doing being. You reach a point where you do not have to choose anymore between being and doing. The two converge. The former split now seems artificial. There are new dynamics at … Continue reading
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Development in eldering
There’s development going on in eldering. What do you see? :- Doug.
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Death in conversation
Our death in conversation is real and risky: we may not emerge on the other side. So we have a choice. Here is a threshold. :- Doug.
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Shape our grandchildren?
What forces will shape the world of our grandchildren? :- Doug.
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If we are developing
If in fact we are developing, can we choose, and how ought we choose, to develop? For whom? For God, for community, for grandchildren? Harder still, what must die? :- Doug.
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A dying appropriate
Our reflections can address What is it we are about, now? They can also show us a threshold: a dying appropriate if we are to become elders. :- Doug.
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Ripe times
More times than we would guess are ripe times for reflection. :- Doug.
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Honor your insights
Honor your insights Notice the longer view O elder :- Doug.
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